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> Where is the public open chats of cyber space? It used to be every tech-savvy person had their own PhpBB instance and built small communities with that. All
by disadvantage 3y ago
> Where is the public open chats of cyber space?
It used to be every tech-savvy person had their own PhpBB instance and built small communities with that. All that has largely migrated to Discord, Reddit, Facebook Groups, and to a lesser extent: Lemmy & Mastodon. There's also quite niche and bespoke communities like Subreply[0], Tildes[1], and Raddle[2] (Built with Postmill). I prefer the Reddit style Karma system over the 'Micro-blogging' system. Everyone has their preferences.
[0] https://subreply.com/trending https://subreply.com/trending
[1] http://tildes.net/ http://tildes.net/
[2] https://raddle.me/ https://raddle.me/
- galaxyLogic 3y agoI don't understand the rationale for "micro-blogging". Why should a site limit the length of messages to an unreasonably low number of characters, say 200 or 400? Why? I understand there was a case for that in mobile texting because of technological costs and the ability to charge more for more messages. But in the web, why should you put an artificial very low limit on how much people can say? And as to Twitter, why would anybody prefer a platform where you can't even edit your messages?